Reminders for Department Faculty and Staff

Effort Reporting

1. At all times know the sources of your salary support and the percent efforts from each source
2. Notify Frank Harrell and Linda Stewart if the average effort devoted to a project over any 6-month period is not concordant with the funded % effort
3. Ask Bill Dupont or Linda Stewart if you have a question about how effort reporting is done

Grant Proposals

1. It is mandatory to include our IT/Professional Funds fee in all grant proposals other than certain K awards
2. Department members may only be named as a consultant on a grant if the PI on the grant is not at Vanderbilt
3. See GrantPolicies for other policies related to grant proposals

Data to Collect

1. See DataToCollect; especially note data to be kept current in dbconnect

Authorship and Submission of Manuscripts

1. Department members are not to be named under Acknowledgements in a published paper except in special circumstances
2. See ManuscriptPolicies
3. Depositing manuscripts
   • Beginning Feb 2008, if you or any of your co-authors had any NIH grant support remotely related to the manuscript, you must submit a PDF copy of the manuscript to Pubmed Central upon acceptance of the manuscript in a journal
   • Most but not all journals do this automatically; check with the journal to be sure
   • If you do not deposit the paper, you will not be able to reference it in any NIH grant progress reports

Teaching Income

1. At least 55% of income for teaching must be used directly for salary support

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